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%%HurtingHero

OverprotectiveDad: Becomes one in his attempts to be a better parent than his dad.

Irina- TheHeart / TheChick

RapunzelHair: Irina and most of the female Erthans have this, as it is considered a symbol of self discipline in their culture (since it takes longer to maintain.)

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AdultFear: ''Oh'', so much.

WhoWearsShortShorts: Zip and Lucy.

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HeroicBSOD: When Lucy dies.

HurtingHero

[[YouGottaHaveBlueHair YouGottaHavePurpleHair]]: As a result of his mutation. He used to be blond.

GoodIsNotDumb

Rapunzel Hair

GenkiGirl

QuirkyCurls

WhoWearsShortShots

[[YouGottaHaveBlueHair You Gotta Have Green Hair]]

YouthfulFreckles

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BeautyMark: Louise and Casper have matching ones to show their siblinghood.

RealityEnsues: It takes a fairly long time for sedatives administered through food or drink to work. Also, a few hours after [[spoiler: coming back from the dead]], Alec starts prodding his torso, stating that he signed an organ donor card. Luckily, his organs are not compatible due to his mutation.

CryingLittleKid: Lucy tells one to annihilate his enemies during an alien invasion. Irina steps in shortly afterwards.

BiTheWay: Irina and every single Erthan.

AntiHero: Lucy, Alec. Although far more notably Justice.

Quadrant 9 (apparently you can't put numbers in a URL) is a superhero series and at times a genre deconstruction of superheroism. The series follows the various exploits of a group of four (or a quadrant of) teenage 'professional defenders' who work for the Los Angeles branch of The Association. 'The team' consists of:



Shift AKA Alec Flint

Justice

Psychedelia AKA rInia vaSyl

An extreme NiceGirl with a love for animals, nature and pretty much everything else. She is an Erthan, a species reincarnated by Mother Nature to protect the Earth in exchange for the Earth protecting them. By way of nature powers. It is part of Erthan culture to be very, [[AllLovingHero very]] nice to people, however, she is nice even by Erthan standards. She is also naive even by Erthan standards and a [[WideEyedIdealist little too straight laced for the world she lives in.]]



Speedbuzz AKA F. AKA Fhugonphipadenbridansectorxailavian Briachtconta

Speedbuzz is an alien from the planet Khoden, which is considered to be one of the most backwards planets in the Inter-Planetary League- mostly because no one knows anything about it thanks to the strict laws that prevent leaving. Speedbuzz, being the free spirit he is, decided to leave for Earth, having learnt English through [[AliensStealCable radio broadcasts]] and some stolen dictionaries [[StrangeSyntaxSpeaker (very, very badly).]] He has a fairly good sense of humour. He is a bit of a tech whiz.

AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: Speedbuzz does this. Orron also does, but it's less noticable.

ActionInsuranceGag: When Justice blows up a door with her powers, Shift asks if the insurance covers it.

-[[spoiler: lioVet's]] death, murdered by a serial killer at twelve.

-[[spoiler: Shift's psychologist, Flora, working for Cortex and giving him his notes (which contain details of his personal life and how to trigger his PTSD).]] Doubles as ParanoiaFuel.

-Punch's wife was [[spoiler: shot dead]] when she was pregnant with their first child.

-In the future, numbers are thin and Justice at least was in the army from age four. She saw a close friend her age die at seven.

AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: You can't help but feel a little bit sorry for Shift's dad after he shows up at the door in season 2, clearly feeling very guilty about what happened six years ago, says he's been rehabillitated and tries to talk to Shift, and Shift slams the door in his face. Then again later on when we learn he [[AteHisGun shot himself]] and no one attended his funeral.]]

ArchEnemy: Cortex to Shift, Leta to Justice, Hanza to Speedbuzz.

AntiHero: Justice, Shift. Although far more notably Justice.

ApologizesALot: Shift as a child. He apologizes just about every two seconds in the episode concerning his DarkAndTroubledPast. He apologizes a fair bit as a teen too.

AteHisGun: [[spoiler: Shift's dad does this off screen at some point between seasons two and three.]]

Badass: Justice most notably. Shift, Punch and Louise also fall under this trope.

BadassInDistress: Happens on occasion. Most notably in Home Court Advantage where Shift almost dies and in Inaccurate Pegging where Speedbuzz is nearly executed.

BattleCouple: Justice and Shift, Speedbuzz and Zip on occasion.

BewareTheNiceOnes: When possessed by Mother Nature, Psychedelia nearly takes down a paper factory single-handedly. Keeping in mind the possession wasn't giving her any special abilities besides her normal powers, she could have done that normally if she'd have wanted to. She also quickly dispatches of an illusion in the maze and several other non-living things.

Don't hurt children in front of Shift, particularly if said child is Raz Blythe. On a lesser note, don't call him a child.

Don't steal Psychedelia's sarong or nearly kill pandas (or any other endangered species) (or any animal at all.)

Don't threaten Speedbuzz's friends or freedom.

Don't lie to or betray Justice. Also, don't threaten her friends. DON'T call her cute (or short. Or flatchested).

BiTheWay: Psychedelia and every single Erthan.

BitterAlmonds: One of Shift's warnings to the team before eating anything the opposition gives you.

BraidsOfAction: Justice has one.

* Speedbuzz:

CharacterDevelopment: Justice changes from being an EmotionlessGirl to letting her true personality show and comes to terms with showing emotions and having real relationships with people. Raz also undergoes a fair bit of character development as he learns to be more independent. These are the more notable examples, but others will be in the characters section.

CharacterTics: Orron's "eyebrows", Shift faceplams quite regularly and also scratches his wrists when he's anxious, Justice pinches the bridge of her nose when she's annoyed, Speedbuzz's antennae wiggle a lot, Zip teleports around rapidly when excited and clicks her fingers repeatedly whilst going "ummmmmm..." when remembering something, usually followed by "AHA! Yes,[...]" and Psychedelia twirls/plays with her hair a lot, particularly when worried.

ColorCodedCharacters: Shift (Green), Justice (Red), Psychedelia (Yellow), Speedbuzz (Blue).

CryingLittleKid: Justice tells one to annihilate his enemies during an alien invasion. Psychedelia steps in shortly afterwards.

CutenessProximity: Psychedelia every time she sees an animal.

DeadpanSnarker: Lots of people- most notably Shift, Carl, and Louise.

DeathByOriginStory: Shift's mum, Punch's wife, [[spoiler: Brett Taylor]] and Speedbuzz's granddad. Also every Erthan, considering they are all magical reincarnates.

->Justice: I don't really agree with [animal testing] either. I mean, there are plenty of murderers and rapists. (beat) ... What?

DrowningMySorrows: Shift's father, Kendall Flint, does this continuously for at least a decade after his wife dies, becoming an alcoholic living in a MessOfWoe consisting of bottles all over the floor of the house. PlayedForLaughs when Shift attempts this during season 1.

-> Shift: Woah.
-> Psychedelia: [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Poor lion!]]
-> Shift: That's not the issue here!

EmotionlessGirl: Justice starts off as one until she realizes she no longer needs to repress her emotions like in the army.

EvilBrit: Subverted with Cortex- his accent is fake, he pulls it to 'avoid recognition in public' (or to sound smart, as Shift believes).

ExactWords: Happens on occasion. Cortex enjoys this trope and insists he never lies. For example, he promises Shift he didn't drug the tea he gave him and agrees to drink from the same pot. Only after Shift gets a sudden dizzy spell does he mention he never said anything about the two saches of 'sugar' he gave to him.

-> Shift: You said you didn't put anything in it!
-> Cortex: I didn't. I suppose it did look quite a lot like sugar, so I can see where the misunderstanding happened. As for what I wanted with you, well, NothingPersonal [...]

FalseFriend: [[spoiler: Flora to Shift, a psychologist he sees who gives all his notes and sensitive information about his mental state to Cortex.]]

Shift- TheLeader (a type 2) / TheSmartGuy

Justice- [[TheBigGuy The Big Gal]]

Speedbuzz- TheLancer

Psychedelia- TheChick

Justice- The Cynic

Shift- The Realist

Psychedelia- The Optimist

Speedbuzz- The Apathetic

FlippingTheBird: On multiple occasions. Speedbuzz sometimes rotates his open palms around one and other before sticking his index finger out, which is apparently the Khodanian equivalent. He also uses the original after mistaking it as a driving signal a la indicating, etc.

FriendlessBackground: Psychedelia and Shift. Shift's justifies his nerdiness in that he never had anything else to do other than read all the books in the house as a child. By the age of eleven, he had already far surpassed the other students his age. Psychedelia's justifies her tendancy to push herself on people sometimes.

GetARoom: Orron tells Shift and Justice to get a room because they're having a somewhat romantic conversation. Shift complains that he didn't even touch her.

GoKartingWithBowser: Psychedelia and Razor have coffee afternoons and sleepovers, which Justice also gets involved in sometimes. To be fair, Razor isn't the most formidable of villainesses.

GreenThumb: Psychedelia and the Erthans.

HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Louise and Justice.

->Shift: Hold my textbooks.

-> Louise: I'm eighteen, it's legal where I come from! *Downs a shot*

IResembleThatRemark: During the tourist shop scene in Crescent Skies, Psychedelia tells Shift he's tight and this happens:
->Justice: I wouldn't call the way you "fixed", in truly massive quotation marks, the shower very responsible.
->Shift: ... You just stole my line. Also, I am ''not'' paying that much for some guy to come in and fix stuff for me. I'll just follow the manual. It's just reading. I can do reading.
->Justice: You didn't buy a manual.
->Shift: It was like ten dollars!

KillerRabbit: One of the animals on Khoden is an extremely cute animal that turns into a giant beast with huge teeth upon Psychedelia cooing over it and fussing it. She carries on stroking it anyway.

KubrickStare: Justice uses this just before she breaks all the glass windows in the museum and starts throwing katakanas among other things. Also used by Shift and accompanied by folded arms and finger drumming after he immediately escapes the [[StrappedToAnOperatingTable operating table he was strapped to]] using his powers [[FailedASpotCheck because Quiver didn't realise he could use his ability to turn into air to escape.]]

LackOfEmpathy: Lee and Cortex. Justice to a lesser extent, although at least she has a FreudianExcuse.

LethalChef: Justice once cooked dinner. It involved raw meat and she made it without the knowledge that they hadn't evolved to the point where they could eat raw meat, thus making everyone ill.

LikeASonToMe: Punch and Shift have this relationship with each other on account of Punch's wife being shot dead while pregnant and Shift's father being way off the deep end.

LittleMissBadass: Justice is considered to be this by many other people. Much to her dismay.

LoveableRogue: Casper, Louise, Zip, Jackie and Raz. Formerly Shift.

MaternalDeathBlameTheChild: This messed [[spoiler: Shift]] up royally, considering his dad never told him his mum died in ''childbirth'', he just continually told him he killed her and refused to explain how, leading him to believe he'd somehow murdered his mother as a child and didn't remember.

MenCantKeepHouse: Averted and played straight. Shift did all of the housework as a child since his dad was too busy being [[spoiler: drunk and mentally unstable]], so he knows how to cook. He has a habit of putting drinks on coasters, etc, which Justice teases him about. Punch also seems to manage fine living by himself, however, Orron is allegedly terrible at anything domestic.

MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Cortex has one in psychology. Shift lampshades this while talking to Psychedelia about why he doesn't like therapists/counsellors/psychologists.

NerdGlasses: Averted and inverted. Justice, one of the [[BookDumb least intellectual characters in the show]] needs reading glasses for her dyslexia. Neither Shift or Webmaster wear glasses.

->Shift: Oh, I don't know, [[DeadpanSnarker maybe it's because being smart isn't an eye disorder?]]

NiceGirl: Psychedelia is one, as is lioVet.

NoSocialSkills: Justice, due to her past as a ChildSoldier in the Dystopia.

NotWearingTights: Webmaster refuses to because he thinks it's silly. Casper, though not in a situation where he needs to, snaps that 'latex is for fetishists' when asked 'where's your tights, mut?' by a mutantphobic. Psychedelia doesn't wear them because she wears traditional Erthan warrior clothing instead.

NWordPrivileges: Only GMHs are allowed to say "mut", apparently.
- Shift: [[DoubleStandard It's called a double standard.]]

OlderThanTheyLook: Justice is sixteen. Being five foot two and having a somewhat infantile face has a tenancy to make people think she's twelve or so. And get Shift accused of having a lolita fetish. Neither take kindly to those thoughts.

OriginsEpisode: Shift and The Mirage get one. Justice also gets one.

PokeThePoodle: Bad Man lives this trope. The League of Legitimate evil are no strangers to it. Psychedelia's threats to the mech in the zoo consist of this- she threatens to key his car, [[MattressTagGag rip the tag off his mattress]] and leave his taps running.

RapunzelHair: Psychedelia and most of the female Erthans have this, as it is considered a symbol of self discipline in their culture (since it takes longer to maintain.)

RealityEnsues: It takes a fairly long time for sedatives administered through food or drink to work. Also, a few hours after [[spoiler: coming back from the dead]], Shift starts prodding his torso, stating that he signed an organ donor card. Luckily, his organs are not compatible due to his mutation.

SlashedThroat: [[spoiler: lioVet]]

SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Played straight with Evan, averted with Shift, Webmaster, Cortex and basically any other "intellegent type" characters in the show.

StepfordSnarker: [[spoiler: Shift]] snarks mostly because he just is that way but also to cover up his emotional instability.

StrangeSyntaxSpeaker: Speedbuzz again.

SuperheroesWearTights: Played straight with most of the characters. Averted with Psychedelia (who wears traditional Erthan battle wear) and Webmaster (who wears a shirt and trousers because he has 'better dress sense than those dolts at the Utopia League and The Association.)

ShoutOut: Shift makes many to various Stephen King novels, which nobody else understands. The more obvious ones are his numerous references to Carrie when prom comes around (since Justice is a telekinetic) and when talking about Justice's powers in general and when he starts talking about Misery when Dr Phillips recommends reading something more uplifting. Psychedelia makes references to a few musicals from time to time. Speedbuzz also makes a Dracula reference when he puts on a cape in a gift shop.

SnarkToSnarkCombat: Cortex and Shift. [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Time. They see each other.]] Occasionally Shift and Carl when left alone long enough.

SophisticatedAsHell: Carl and occasionally Shift. Some of Cortex's dialogue falls into this and Speedbuzz's can when he mixes different levels of formality without knowing.

SorryIFellOnYourFist: Shift as a child on numerous occasions.

SorryThatImDying: [[spoiler: Shift.]]

StatusQuoIsGod: [[spoiler: Justice and Shift's ressurection due to the time loop,]] and a more minor example with Shift cutting the blond streak out of his hair after Home Court Advantage after eight hours or so of exposure to metar.

-> Shift: Why don't we just go to public school?

-> Supervisor: Why don't we just send hormonal teenagers with super powers to public school? Good question. Think about it.

-> Shift: Oh, right.

SwissArmySuperPower: Shift's powers would be useless if he weren't an extreme chemistry nerd.

TeamMom: Psychedelia and to an extent Louise.

TeamSpirit: Discussed and downplayed. Played for laughs/exaggerated in a manner of speaking when Shift mentions it in his failing speech and everyone starts cheering/hugging/fist bumping/ hi fiving before he can explain that not ''everything'' depends on teamwork and they all ignore him when he tries. He leaves the room shortly afterwards.

TeethClenchedTeamWork: Cortex offers to open doors for Shift with his Utopia League card, Shift begrugingly accepts and Cortex gladly takes the opportunity to spend the rest of the episode being a prick towards Shift.

TermsOfEndangerment: Plenty of characters use the "buddy" variant. Cortex uses various forms of "child" towards younger people, but tends towards inappropriate FirstNameBasis with adults or older teens.

ThereAreNoPsychologists: Averted. Shift sees two, [[spoiler: one of which is working for Cortex, the other which isn't the most helpful but at least legitimate.]]

TheRunaway: Shift is a type 2. Louise was trying to get a better life for her and her brother, since their mum was a neglective deadbeat.

TookALevelInBadass: Raz takes a rather drastic one in "Social Science". He was a somewhat cowardly child who couldn't use his powers unless it was by accident. By the end of the episode, he completely pwns an entire anti mutant movement. Psychedelia also takes one after [[spoiler: lioVet]] is killed.

WhoWearsShortShorts: Zip and Justice.

[[folder:Alec "Shift" Flint]]

ApologisesALot: As a child, but still apologises a fair bit as a six/seventeen year old. Mostly for his PTSD, which is still not his fault. [[SorryIFellOnYourFist Like most of the things he was apologising about before.]]

BadassBookworm: He is frequently seen reading, speaks fluent nerd and can recite the periodic table in three different ways. His first attempt at small talk in the series has him asking Justice if she likes particle theory.

->Shift: I'm sorry, gentlemen. ''Is my class inturrupting your violent rampage through this school?!''
The former was after about five armed men from the Utopia League enters his seventh grade class. He proceeds to make them wish they'd never come in.

CallingTheOldManOut: When his dad shows up uninvited having not spoken to him in six years and Shift now knows what actually happened to his mum, he is not impressed.

CannotSpitItOut: He spends about twenty seconds repeating "I- do you- would you- uh- heh- would you like to um...- you know, uh- uh. Uh. Like-" when attempting to ask Justice out.

CantHoldHisLiquor: Shift manages to get a hangover after drinking half a cider. [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Keeping in mind Justice had nearly a whole crate of beer,]] is younger than him, is smaller than him, is female, and is completely fine, he questions how this is biologically possible.

Claustrophobia: Justified, since his father locked him in the hall closet on multiple occasions. Shift mentions he was locked in there for nearly three days straight at least once

CrushBlush: Gets one after Orron notices that he likes Justice.

-> Shift: Gravity's just a theory! Are you afraid we're all going to fall off the Earth?!

DarkAndTroubledPast: ''Oh, boy.'' Kendall Flint was always mentally unstable until one December night in Alaska the house was completely snowed in and his wife, Diane was giving birth with no one who knew how to deliver a baby and no way of getting to the hospital. She died giving birth, and Kendall named the child the first name he saw upon opening a phone directory, Alec. He "raised" the kid blaming him for Diane's death, and thus Shift's childhood was filled with ambiguous accusations of killing his mother which he remembered nothing of and his father's violent refusal to give details about the event. (Literally violent.) His dad was typically drunk, out of it on pills, or both. Shift reports him taking his sleeping pills with vodka and rationing the heating to pay for his drinking habit. The whole house was always filled with broken glass and empty bottles that Kendall couldn't be bothered to clean up, which Alec accidentally stepped on. Then purposely stepped on. Then cut himself with whatever sharp objects he could find in order to try and take away some of the guilt. Considering his father would beat him if he had done something "wrong", this was the only way he knew how to deal with guilt. Shift also says that he was often locked in the hall closet, once for nearly three days. He also briefly looked after a stray dog, which he named Hawking. His dad shot it when he talked to a teacher about the situation at home and threatened to shoot him if he did it again. He ran away when he was eleven, lived on the streets for a few months and got picked up by some people who were testing genetic engineering program (they were targeting runaways and airports because their was less risk of being caught.) After this, he stayed with the other children, who later became The Mirage. After spending two years with The Mirage, a con goes wrong and he ends up being thrown out onto a road in the middle of Los Anglese because his captors thought he was dead. He healed himself with his powers and spent the next two years homeless until the story takes place. He has PTSD because of this and a guilt complex until he finds out what actually happened to his mum. Then he gets even more angry with his dad.

FutureSpandex: His uniform, which is polyestor on the inside and spandex on the outside that he dubs the "gay acrobat get-up". He admits it's grown on him at one point, though he may have been joking.

HeroicBSOD: When Justice dies.

JadeColoredGlasses: Shift is rather cynical, although he becomes less so over the course of the series. He never goes full wide-eyed idealist again, he just becomes less suspicous of people being nice to him, etc.

KryptoniteFactor: Metar or Metar Digroveide. (Mtr / Mtr2Gr). All mutants have this. It is gaseous at room temperature but when mixed with Groveium it becomes liquid at room temperature. It is rather expensive due to coming from a different planet. The explanation behind it is that it turns the mutant's antibodies against their mutated cells, then to their actual cells. Eventually, they die from their antibodies destorying their lungs, heart or brain. Depending on how old/heavy you are, how long this takes varies. The average adult male's body weight would take 9 hours for this process to complete, and Shift states it feels like burning from the inside. The entire time. Ouch. The effects are essentially temporary power loss and gradually other side effects like the inablity to walk and loss of consciousness. It can remove powers completely just before a person dies. When Shift is exposed to it during "Home Court Advantage" by eight hours a lock of his hair has turned blond again, he's shaking violently, hallucinating and he isn't forming coherent sentences. (Considering he would take about eight and a half hours to die from it because of his smaller build, this isn't surprising.)

KryptoniteIsEverywhere: Lots of people seem to have metar in some way shape or form. Shift even lampshades this.

-> Shift: I thought it was supposed to be expensive.

OnlySaneMan: He considers himself this within the Quadrant, because Justice thinks every problem in the world can be solved with violence, Speedbuzz is eccentric and doesn't really understand Earth and Psychedelia seems to believe she lives in a Disney film. He's probably right.

TrickedOutGloves: His right one has a lighter-type mechanism installed in it by Speedbuzz so he doesn't have to carry his lighter around in a pocket somewhere, since it was a bit of an issue in combat because A- it takes time, B- everyone knew when he was going to set fire to something, usually something explosive, and knew to move out of the way. He can trigger it by pressing his index finger to his thumb and pushing an interior button.

[[folder:rInia "Psychedelia" vaSyl]]

->Justice: [...] and she'll understand and tolerate the crap out of you. Trust me. It gets really annoying after a while.

SillyRabbitCynicismIsForLosers: Psychedelia is a very happy go lucky person and basically pulls this on any cynical character in an eight mile radius. It doesn't always work, but she tries.

[[folder:F "Speedbuzz" Briachtconta]]

-> Psychedelia: Uh, F? Are you sure it's healthy to have that much caffeine in your system at once?
-> Speedbuzz: No one can tell me it isn't!

-> Speedbuzz: Not finishing a meal is sign of '''''WEAKNESS!'''''

[[folder:Justice]]

The Protagonist. A priorly homeless sixteen year old con artist and DeadpanSnarker with a liking for complex chemistry and horror literature. He is also a mutant with the ability of 'Atomic-Molecular Shifting'. Or 'morphing/shifting' as he prefers to call it, which gives him the ability to change things (including himself) into any compound or element he likes. It also gives him unusual pigmentation and most people an excuse to be discriminatory towards him.

A sixteen year old time traveller who refuses to give away any information about her past for fear of destroying the space time continuum. As a result of her evolution she is able to fly, use telekinesis and shoot bolts of energy at people. Her answer to any and all problem is violence and she tends to dish out graphic and violent threats that sound dissonant compared to her physique and voice. [[CreepyMonotone She has trouble]] [[EmotionlessGirl expressing her emotions.]]

An extreme NiceGirl with a love for animals, nature and pretty much everything else. She is an Erthan, a species reincarnated by Mother Nature to protect the Earth in exchange for the Earth protecting them. By way of nature powers. It is part of Erthan culture to be very, very nice to people, however, she is nice even by Erthan standards. She is also naive even by Erthan standards and little too straight laced for the world she lives in.

Speedbuzz is an alien from the planet Khoden, which is considered to be one of the most backwards planets in the Inter-Planetary League- mostly because no one knows anything about it thanks to the strict laws that prevent leaving. Speedbuzz, being the free spirit he is, decided to leave for Earth, having learnt English through radio broadcasts and some stolen dictionaries (very, very badly). He is friendly and often excited to 'do the seeing of new things'. He is a bit of a tech whiz.

AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: Speedbuzz does this.

Don't hurt children in front of Shift, particularly if said child is Raz Blythe.

ButtMonkey: Badman, of the entire supervillain/hero community.

* Shift:
->"X, in truly massive quotation marks."
->"Oh. Logic."
* Justice:
->"Afternoon."

CharacterTics: Evan adjusts his glasses quite a lot, Orron's "eyebrows", Shift faceplams quite regularly and also scratches his wrists when he's anxious, Justice pinches the bridge of her nose when she's annoyed, Speedbuzz's antennae wiggle a lot, Zip teleports around rapidly when excited and clicks her fingers repeatedly whilst going "ummmmmm..." when remembering something, usually followed by "AHA! Yes,[...]" and Psychedelia twirls/plays with her hair a lot, particularly when worried.

CryingLittleKid: Justice tells one to quickly dispose of his enemies during an alien invasion. Psychedelia steps in shortly afterwards.

HeHadAName: Cortex continually refers to Justice as 'the short one', which irritates Shift. When he continues to do so after [[spoiler: she's dead]], it irritates him further.

MadLibsCatchphrase: "X, in truly massive quotation marks."

NerdGlasses: Averted, played straight and inverted. Justice, one of the [[BookDumb least intellectual characters in the show]] needs reading glasses for her dyslexia. Neither Shift or Webmaster wear glasses, but Evan does.

Speedbuzz is an alien from the planet Khoden, which is considered to be one of the most backwards planets in the Inter-Planetary League- mostly because no one knows anything about it thanks to the strict laws that prevent leaving. Speedbuzz, being the free spirit he is, decided to leave for Earth, having learnt English through radio broadcasts and some stolen dictionaries (very, very badly). He is friendly and often excited to 'do the seeing of new things'.

ArchEnemy: Cortex to Shift, Omnileto to Justice, Hanza to Speedbuzz.

ApologizesALot: Shift as a child. He apologizes just about every two seconds in the episode concerning his DarkAndTroubledPast.

BadassBookworm: Shift can recite the periodic table. Forwards, backwards and in alphabetical order. He also likes reading Stephen King (which is a bit like reading Oscar Wilde in his time). This does not stop him from single handedly destroying a building in order to save his friend.

BewareTheNiceOnes: When possessed by Mother Nature, Psychedelia nearly takes down a paper factory single-handedly. Keeping in mind the possession wasn't giving her any special abilities besides her normal powers, she could have done that normally if she'd have wanted to.

->"Hi. I'm here to break limbs."

->"Greetings!"

CryingLittleKid: Justice yells at one to man up during an alien invasion. Psychedelia steps in shortly afterwards.

DarkerAndEdgier: Justified in-universe. Since Justice is fifteen at the start, The Association will not send them on missions involving certain things (murder, rape, ect.) When Justice turns sixteen, the series takes a turn for the darker content. Although the series did have dark content before, it just wasn't as bad.

DeadGuyPuppet: Omnileto's charming arsenal.

Justice- TheBigGuy

FriendlessBackground: Justice, Speedbuzz and Shift. Shift's justifies his nerdiness in that he never had anything else to do other than read all the books in the house as a child. By the age of eleven, he had already far surpassed the other students his age. Justice's justifies her lack of social skills.

HeHadAName: Cortex continually refers to Justice as 'the short one', which irritates Shift. When he continues to do so after she's dead, it irritates him further.

NoSocialSkills: Justice, due to her FriendlessBackground as a ChildSoldier in the Dystopia.

OlderThanTheyLook: Justice is fifteen. Being five foot two and having a somewhat infantile face has a tenancy to make people think she's twelve or so. And get Shift accused of having a lolita fetish. Neither take kindly to those thoughts.

RealityEnsues: It takes a fairly long time for sedatives administered through food or drink to work. Also, a few hours after [[spoiler: coming back from the dead]], Shift starts prodding his torso, stating that he signed an organ donor card. Luckily, his organs are not compatable due to his mutation.

RobotBuddy: Carl, again.

StepfordSnarker: [[spoiler: Shift]] snarks mostly because he just is that way but also to cover up his mental instability.

ShoutOut: Shift makes many to various Stephen King novels, which nobody else understands since the show is set in the twenty sixth century and he only knows these things because he found the books in the basement and loft of his old house, presumably belonging to his ancestors. The more obvious ones are his numerous references to Carrie when prom comes around (since Justice is a telekinetic) and when talking about Justice's powers in general and when he starts talking about Misery when Dr Phillips recommends reading something more uplifting.

TermsOfEndangerment: Plenty of characters use the "buddy" variant. Cortex uses various forms of "child" towards younger people, but tends towards inappropriate FirstNameBasis with adults of older teens.

CallingTheOldManOut: When his dad shows up uninvited having not spoken to him in five years and Shift now knows what actually happened to his mum, he is not impressed.

CantHoldHisLiquor: Shift manages to get a hangover after drinking half a cider. [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl Keeping in mind Justice had nearly a whole crate of beer,]] is younger than him, is smaller than him, is female, and is completely fine, he questions how this is biollogically possible.

DarkAndTroubledPast: ''Oh, boy.'' Kendall Flint was always mentally unstable until one December night in Alaska the house was completely snowed in and his wife, Diane was giving birth with no one who knew how to deliver a baby and no way of getting to the hospital. She died giving birth, and Kendall named the child the first name he saw upon opening a phone directory, Alec. He "raised" the kid blaming him for Diane's death, and thus Shift's childhood was filled with ambiguous accusations of killing his mother which he remembered nothing of and his father's violent refusal to give details about the event. (Literally violent.) His dad was typically drunk, out of it on pills, or both. Shift reports him taking his sleeping pills with vodka and rationing the heating to pay for his drinking habit. The whole house was always filled with broken glass and empty bottles that Kendall couldn't be bothered to clean up, which Alec accidentally stepped on. Then purposely stepped on. Then cut himself with whatever sharp objects he could find in order to try and take away some of the guilt. Considering his father would beat him if he had done something "wrong", the only way this was the only way he knew how to deal with guilt. Shift also says that he was often locked in the hall closet, once for nearly three days. He also briefly looked after a stray dog, which he named Hawking. His dad shot it when he talked to a teacher about the situation at home and threatened to shoot him if he did it again. He ran away when he was eleven, lived on the streets for a few months and got picked up by some people who were testing genetic engineering program (they were targeting runaways and airports because their was less risk of being caught.) After this, he stayed with the other children, who later became The Mirage. After spending two years with The Mirage, a con goes wrong and he ends up being thrown out onto a road in the middle of Los Anglese because his captors thought he was dead. He healed himself with his powers and spent the next two years homeless until the story takes place. He has PTSD because of this and a guilt complex until he finds out what actually happened to his mum. Then he gets even more angry with his dad.

->Justice: [...] and she'll understand and tolerate the crap out of you. Trust me. It gets ''really'' annoying after a while.

NoSenseOfPersonalSpace: People are much more open with physical contact on his planet.

The Protagonist. A priorly homeless sixteen year old con artist and DeadpanSnarker with a liking for complex chemistry and horror literature. He is also a mutant with the ability of 'Atomic-Molecular Shifting'. Or 'morphing/shifting' as he prefers to call it, which gives him the ability to change things (including himself) into any compound or element he likes. It also gives him unusual pigmentation and most people an excuse to be discriminating towards him.

A fifteen year old time traveler who refuses to give away any information about her past for fear of destroying the space time continuum. As a result of her evolution she is able to fly, use telekinesis and shoot bolts of energy at people. Her answer to any and all problem is violence and she tends to dish out graphic and violent threats that sound dissonant compared to her physique and voice.

Quadrant 9 (apparently you can't put numbers in a URL) is a superhero series and at times a genre deconstruction of superheroism. The series follows the various exploits of a group of four (or a quadrant of) teenage 'professional defenders' who work for the Los Angeles branch of The Association in the year 2614. 'The team' consists of:

The Protagonist. A priorly homeless sixteen year old con artist and DeadpanSnarker with a liking for complex chemistry and 21st century horror literature. He is also a mutant with the ability of 'Atomic-Molecular Shifting'. Or 'morphing/shifting' as he prefers to call it, which gives him the ability to change things (including himself) into any compound or element he likes. It also gives him unusual pigmentation and most people an excuse to be discriminating towards him.

HeyThatsMyLine: Justice borrows Shift's "X, in truly massive quotation marks" line in Crescent Skies during the tourist shop scene.
->Justice: I wouldn't call the way you "fixed", in truly massive quotation marks, the shower very responsible.
->Shift: ... You just stole my line.

HypocriticalHumor: During the tourist shop scene in Crescent Skies, Psychedelia tells Shift he's tight and this happens:

INeedAFreakingDrink: Louise has a tenancy to do this despite being underage in America.
-> Louise: I'm eighteen, it's legal where I come from! *Downs a shot*

LethalChef: Justice once cooked dinner. It is a NoodleIncident, but we do know that it involved raw meat and that she made it without the knowledge that they hadn't evolved to the point where they could eat raw meat, thus making everyone ill.

MathematiciansAnswer: Shift gives these to people he doesn't like on occasion.

MenCantKeepHouse: Averted and played straight. Shift did all of the housework as a child since his dad was too busy being drunk and mentally unstable, so he knows how to cook. He has a habit of putting drinks on coasters, etc, which Justice teases him about. Punch also seems to manage fine living by himself, however, Orron is allegedly terrible at anything domestic.

StepfordSnarker: Shift snarks mostly because he just is that way but also to cover up his mental instability.

ManipulativeBastard / CompleteMonster: Cortex is a sadistic man who enjoys psychologically torturing people ForTheEvulz. In his own words, 'I simply enjoy watching people snap'.

ActionInsuranceGag: When Justice blows up a door with her powers, Shift asks if the insurance covers it. Also, this:

-> Shift: [[IfWeSurviveThis If we don't die,]] remind me to set up the life insurance thingy!

There is also a note on the fridge later on in the background in Shift's hand writing that reads ''"sort out life insurance: whenever"''

BraidsOfAction: Justice has one.

CerebusRollercoaster

Speedbuzz- TheLancer / TeamTech

NerdsWearGlasses: Averted, played straight and inverted. Justice, one of the [[BookDumb least intellectual characters in the show]] needs reading glasses for her dyslexia. Neither Shift or Webmaster wear glasses, but Evan does.

YoutuhfulFreckles: Zip has them. This makes sense since she was raised on a farm in California- lots of sun.

TookALevelInBadass: Raz takes a rather drastic one in "Social Science". He was a somewhat cowardly child who couldn't use his powers unless it was by accident. By the end of the episode, he completely pwns an entire anti mutant movement.

ChildAbuse: Basically his entire childhood.

'''MAIN HEROES'''

'''Shift's backstory is a main element of the plot, so all spoilers here are unmarked.'''

SorryIFellOnYourFist: Shift as a child on numerous occasions as a result of being a victim of [[spoiler: ChildAbuse.]]